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A prayerful start to college life

AN AIR of solemnity pervaded the auditorium at CMS College of Science and Commerce at Chinnavedampatti, as 850 students began their first day in the college.

On the stage was a small table covered with a white cloth, and bearing the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible and the Koran.

A three-branched candlestick was alight and an incense stick holder wafted a pleasant aroma.

Students read out passages from the three holy books and rendered bhajans.

In his address to the newcomers on the campus, the Director of the Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage, N. Gopalakrishnan, said that learners should keep an open mind, accept whatever was good, and put it to good use in their everyday lives.

"You will get knowledge from your teachers, from your books and from everything around you.

Let noble thoughts come to us from all over the world," he said.

Young people should keep in mind that they were in college in order to "learn, understand, analyse and utilise" knowledge.

He observed that in India, it was

the tradition to pray that people could coexist in peace, work together, eat together, share the benefits of

their work, take part in cooperative ventures and act without

hatred towards anyone.

WHAT DOES July mean to college students? Quite a lot, one would have to say. That's not surprising for it is the time when students get back to college.

If July is reunion time for collegians, the month brings in a whole lot of new things for freshers. For once everything seems new. New friends, new environs and a whole new way of life. All this also brings a sense of anxiety in them.

Most colleges these days organise interaction with seniors and teachers on the very first day to tell the freshers that there is really nothing much to worry.

The Hindustan College of Arts and Science organised a `grand opening' for the first year undergraduate students a few days ago. Anxious freshers who came along with their parents assembled at the seminar hall. Their seniors gave them a warm welcome. The Principal, R.S. Ramasamy, said that college was another home for the students.

The Head of the Department of Communication, PSG College of Arts and Science, C. Pitchandy, in his keynote address stated that students should hone their skills constantly to be successful in their career.

AIR COMMODORE V.K. Dayalu, Air Force Administrative College, inaugurated the Aeronautical Engineering Association of Park College of Engineering and Technology recently.

In his inaugural address, he stressed the importance of aeronautical engineering with particular reference to the country's defence requirement and Indian Space Research Organisation's space programmes. He appreciated the effort of the colleges in grooming good aeronautical engineers who have been placed in Indian Air Force, Defence Research and Development Organisation and ISRO. He advised the students to aspire for a career in IAF. He also lauded Anoop Ramachandran for having been selected for the initial training at the IAF.

(Contributed by A.A. Michael Raj,

M. Allirajan & Vidyashree Amaresh)

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